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which has been given in the school „ . . Well-planned and well-
thought-out arts education enables the school to discover the
specially gifted pupils, in whatever direction, and to prevent
talent from being stifled. The aim of the school is not to turn
the children into professional art workers, but with the "help of
art to train them for life. At the same time the discovery of the
specially gifted children, though a subordinate activity, is a very
important function of the school. By directing the gifted pupils
to work in the special institutes, the school is co-operating in
increasing the number of creative proletarian artists.
" All pupils must receive a well-defined amount of knowledge
and skill in the arts, and must be trained so that, when they
begin life, this new generation shall enter into the artistic self-
activity of the proletariat, and shall raise the standard of this
self-activity. The knowledge and skill which the great mass
of youth will acquire in the schools will raise the general cultural
level of the workers. . . .
" The arts education of the pupils cannot be limited to the
work of the specialist teacher in the art or music lesson, or to
the work of the circles out of school. It must become the active
concern of the entire school. All instruction in the school must
have as its aim, side by side with the teaching of the children
and their political education, an arts education. With this pur-
pose in mind, every teacher must aim at giving her lessons in a
form which will help arts education in so far as the particular
subject makes this possible. On the other hand, every teacher
must use all the possibilities of the arts in order to make a
lesson more vivid, clearer, more varied, and richer in emotional
content.
" Every school should have its Arts Committee, with the litera-
ture specialist at the head. It should include the art and music
specialist and the director of dramatic circles. Together they
must work out a programme of visits to galleries, exhibitions, etc,"
Music. This includes singing, theory, reading, musical appre-
ciation, and musical biography. Up to the present* choral